Why the hell didn't he damn sister get her out of the asylum and get her to live with her and her son? This really made me angry and pissed off. Harriet's sister was a selfish bitch for just standing by the gate with Harriet's son like she's saying, "Haha, I have your son and you don't." This saddened me.
shareBack then, her sister would have made her life, Crispina's life and the life of Crispina's son worse by taking her out. Besides, who's to say her sister had any way of supporting her? If her sister was married, I doubt her husband would have welcomed Crispina into his home. As you saw in the movie, the men were always completely innocent in any wrongdoing when these girls became pregnant. All blame was placed on the girls alone. At least Crispina got to see her son...her sister made sure of that and I doubt anyone in her family knew about it.
shareWow, calm down. We don't know anything about the sister, so to call her a "selfish bitch" is completely ridiculous. Second of all, only male relatives could release a girl or woman from the laundries. And Crispina's sister couldn't because she was female.
And "Haha, I have your son and you don't." Um, no. She was just making sure she got a chance to be able to see her son whenever she could. Something that their other relatives wouldn't have done. So what Crispina's sister was doing was very brave and kind-hearted.
It was a society run by males. Even the nuns are basically slaves of the Catholic Church. So Crispina's sister would have been incapable of helping her, especially if she was single.
shareShe couldn't get her out of the laundries because only the men of the family (father,brother)could do that. They had all the power.
Getting her out of the asylum she was sent to in the end, well..by the time her sister had found her (a year or so later?) Crispina was "too far gone" to ever be able to function normally, even if her sister was able to get her released.
She'd been turned into a complete zombie from whatever they had done to her.
Women couldn't get each other out. Had to be a man. And she didn't know what had happened to Crispina for ages and then had to find her.
"When lightning strikes the sea, why don't all the fish die?"
Try doing some historical research on Ireland before making a sweeping judgement upon Crispina's sister. She COULDN'T get Crispina out. She was a woman. She was lucky she even got the baby to raise. In the majority of the cases where a woman had a child out of wedlock in Ireland, the woman was put into a launderette, an asylum, etc., while the baby was usually SOLD by the church/convent to a rich couple, and they then pocketed the money.
share